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My life with Charles Chauvel

Title
My life with Charles Chauvel / Elsa Chauvel.
Author
Chauvel, Elsa, 1898-1983
Publication
  • North Melbourne, Vic. : Arcadia, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
xi, 189 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 23 cm
Summary
  • Includes detail on the making of the film Uncivilized on Palm Island and Jedda with Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth.
  • To take you down to the sea in ships, to go tramping over a thousand hills, to huddle against a man-made cyclone in the jungle scrub of the Lamington Plateau, to go film-making with Charles and Elsa Chauvel - that's the object of this book. In these pages you will share Elsa's dramatic years beside her film-producer husband, helping to pioneer a struggling motion picture industry. You will sail with them to lonely Pitcairn Island, where they face hazardous seas to bring back, for the first time, film footage of the hiding place of the Bounty mutineers. You will travel with the dedicated, adventure-loving pair to film in the rugged interior of the Northern Territory. You will listen to the thunder of hooves as they film the unforgettable, world-acclaimed charge of Forty Thousand Horsemen, and you will read of the stars discovered and created by Charles Chauvel: Errol Flynn, Mary Maguire, Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch, Michael Pate, Betty Bryant, Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth of Jedda fame.
Subject
  • Chauvel, Charles, 1897-1959
  • Chauvel, Elsa, 1898-1983
  • Kunoth, Ngarla
  • Tudawali, Robert, 1929-1967
  • Motion picture producers and directors > Australia > Biography
  • Motion picture producers' and directors' spouses > Australia > Biography
  • Motion pictures, Australian > Production and direction
  • Motion picture industry > Australia
  • Motion picture industry
  • Motion picture producers and directors
  • Motion picture producers' and directors' spouses
  • Australia
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Note
  • Originally published 1973 by Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney.
  • Includes filmography (pages 177-188).
Contents
1. Elsa in South Africa -- 2. Charles in Australia -- 3. A reluctant star -- 4. To Hollywood with hope -- 5. "In the Wake of the Bounty" -- 6. Tahiti -- 7. We find Errol Flynn -- 8. "Heritage" -- 9. Brisbane goes on a movie picnic -- 10. A studio tragedy -- 11. "Uncivilised" -- 12. "Forty Thousand Horsemen" -- 13. War documentaries -- 14. "The Rats of Tobruk" -- 15. "Sons of Matthew" -- 16. A man-made cyclone -- 17. Prospecting for movie gold -- 18. The Jedda safari -- 19. Dark stars for the bright lights of Sydney -- 20. Re-union with Errol Flynn -- 21. Our last safari -- Appendix: Filmography -- Photographic sources.
Call Number
MWES (Chauvel, C.) 20-2536
ISBN
  • 9781925801767
  • 1925801764
OCLC
1110725302
Author
Chauvel, Elsa, 1898-1983, author.
Title
My life with Charles Chauvel / Elsa Chauvel.
Publisher
North Melbourne, Vic. : Arcadia, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
MWES (Chauvel, C.) 20-2536
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